Format:
255 Seiten :
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Illustrationen ;
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22 cm.
Edition:
First English edition
Original writing person/organisation:
高階, 秀爾
ISBN:
978-4-86658-020-3
Series Statement:
Japan library
Content:
The Japanese sense of beauty is an important contribution to the study of aesthetics and cultural history, offering insights that will change the way you think about Japanese art
Note:
"Originally published in Japanese under the title of Nihonjin ni totte utsukushisa to wa nanika by Chikumashobo Ltd., in 2015"--title page verso. - Includes new preface to English edition. - Impressum auch in Japanisch
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I. Word and image : the Japanese aesthetic consciousness -- The Kokin Wakashū and Japanese aesthetics -- The significance of Imperial Waka anthologies -- Cross the word-image border -- Sori : a plastic sensitivity -- European curve, Japanese Sori -- The plasticity of Hiragana -- Comparing Japanese and Western architecture -- What is a Torii? -- Closeness to nature in Japanese aesthetics -- The four seasons in Japanese painting -- Emoji, Moji-e, and play -- Word and image together -- Chriashigaki and Kaeshigaki -- The uniqueness of Chinese characters in Japan -- Word and image in handcraft design -- Fujiwara no Teika's aesthetics of rejection -- Ariwara no Narihira's "Eight Brides" -- Ono no Komachi's "Color of the Flowers" -- Word and image separated : text design in the West -- Word and image in comics -- Poems and pictures today -- II. Japanese beauty, Western beauty -- East meets West : forms of expression in Japanese and Western art --
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The discovery of Japan's aesthetic consciousness -- The introduction of Western painting techniques to Japan -- Two forms of expression -- The aesthetics of omission and the close-up -- Contrasting principles -- Design in Japanese art -- The dawn of Japanese oil painting -- Sentiment and sensibility : beneath the surface of Wasei Yuga -- Japan and the West in the art of Takeuchi Seihō -- III. Roots of the Japanese aesthetic consciousness -- Word and image -- Chinese characters and the Japanese language -- The culture of name succession -- The aesthetics of the margin -- Postcards and place -- Gagaku without Gagaku -- Canonical beauty and situational beauty - Taikan and Fuji -- Whither Passing Spring? -- School songs and musical education -- Fukuzawa Yukichi, traditionalist -- Blossoms of devotion : Boshun, Buson, and the white plum -- Dragons, tigers, and museums -- Interpretation as transformation -- Interpretation as creative act -- Bridges and the Japanese --
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The glittering vague -- Travel, east and west -- Tokyo Station and the culture of travel -- Robots and Japanese culture -- Mount Fuji as world cultural heritage
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
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Art History
Keywords:
Kunst
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Philosophie
Author information:
Takashina, Shūji 1932-
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